How To Know If There Are Sexual Predators Near Your Home

How do I know if there are sexual predators near my home?

Since 1996, there's been policy in this country called "Megan's law", that does two things. It mandates that government register sex offenders and then give that information to the public so the public can use that information to protect their children. The most effective means of community notification has proven to be the internet. Every state now has a Megan's Law website where you can look at the pictures, the addresses, the names of the sexual offenders within your community. And most of them allow you to categorize via physical characteristics, race, zip code, address, even crime and in some instances things like vehicle registration. It's an absolutely wonderful tool because there are well over half a million people now on the various state registries. And people have used it for a variety of reasons, to be able to protect children.